13 Minutes
The film tells breath-taking story of Georg Elser, one of the greatest resistance fighters, who failed to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb at a Nazi convention in November 1939.
9 May 1948
11 December 1978, Stuttgart, Germany
21 December 1967, Hamburg, Germany
3 March 1968, Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
13 April 1978, Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italy
8 July 1966, Hückeswagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7 December 1986, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
13 December 1984, Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
26 September 1972, Munich, Germany
10 August 1971, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
27 February 1967, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
1966, Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
11 April 1953, Wittenberge, German Democratic Republic
20 October 1979, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1973
1962, Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
February 23, 2016
13 Minutes presents a redundant historical "what if" that leaves itself open to charges of relativization.
January 01, 2016
Jumping around in time just a shade too much in the midsection, Hirschbiegel's film nevertheless proves a compelling historical drama.
December 21, 2015
The narrative keeps up the intrigue, with Elser's eventual fate being not quite as clear-cut as you might expect.
April 17, 2016
13 Minutes is an elegant, expensive-looking, respectful history lesson that finds just enough interesting texture ... to save it from becoming dry
February 06, 2017
Straightforward and fortuitously timed bio-drama of a nearly forgotten German who tried to assassinate his country's fascist dictator at the beginning of World War II.
May 04, 2016
History robs the film of suspense potential, of course... What remains reads like a noble, but slightly worthy, attempt to disinter the reputation of a man largely forgotten in Germany until the publication of a 1999 biography.
December 04, 2016
As a testament to a forgotten wartime hero, it's a credible, well-crafted portrait.
July 22, 2015
As with countless films set in the period, the absence of subtlety combined with predictable dollops of sentimentalism once again trivialize events in the name of making them understandable.
March 17, 2016
As a first step back into polite cinematic society after a long run of duffers, Hirschbiegel's film has a certain value to it.
July 13, 2015
An important story, of course, but only mildly engaging as cinema.
November 05, 2016
The movie is an effective and frightening study of how a country can collapse morally and socially without its citizens realizing what is happening. [Full review in Portuguese.]
July 22, 2015
The movie is well acted and mostly absorbing, but it spells out everything so painstakingly that there's zero room for subtext.
